Medical - 2018

Sandia National Labs has developed a new medical diagnostic tool called “SpinDx.” The SpinDx was developed for conducting simultaneous multiplexed immunoassays and white blood cell counts in less than 15 minutes. The technique is based on centrifugal microfluidics, or “lab-on-a-disk” technology, which uses centrifugal forces to manipulate samples and reagents through microfluidic channels on the disk. The device can determine a patient’s white blood cell count, analyze important protein markers, and process up to 64 assays from a single sample in a matter of minutes.

To obtain blood cell counts, blood samples are mixed on the disk with labeling agents ...

A method of time travel and time reversal was put forward in the 2017 Create the Future Design Contest. This entry is about improvement in the efficiency of the claimed device.

Image 1 shows spring SP with bigger inner diameter but lesser spring constant. Threads TH1 and TH2 are fixed to the two ends SPR and SPL of spring SP. Threads TH1 and TH2 run parallel to the direction of gravity and connected to fixed points SR and SL on support S. Thread TH3 starts from fixed point SX on spring SP at one end passes through the inside ...

Titanium is an indispensable material in medical technology. Until now, deep-drawn parts made of titanium could only be produced by single-stage forming - this resulted in low drawing depths and thus a very limited range of parts. Furthermore, often only low precision was possible. Multi-stage cold forming was uneconomical due to the extreme stress of the tools.

STÜKEN has developed a new process to produce titanium parts in several stages in a cold forming process. This generates numerous advantages - especially for medical technology:

This submission is a device that would reduce the chance of bleed out in trauma situations such as gun shot and stab wounds. The device consists of a probe made of moderately flexible plastic that is surrounded by a ribbed latex balloon. The balloon would be inflated by a thumb pump in the handle. The probe would be inserted into the wound prior to inflation, its insertion would be aided by a lubricant jell containing both antibiotics and a coagulant. The device would be packaged in a sterile wrapper with the lubricant already in place. The purpose of the ...

In a total hip arthroplasty (THA), arthritic bone ends and damaged cartilage are removed and replaced with a hip implant. Over 800,000 total hip replacements are performed worldwide annually. Total hip arthroplasty is one of the most clinically successful surgeries and improves quality of life for debilitating hip disease patients. Nevertheless, 10-20% of the operations undergo a revision surgery, where risk is especially high for elderly patients. One of the common reasons of a revision surgery is loosening of the stem, which can be caused by bone resorption. Bone resorption also increases the bone fracture risk and makes revision ...

Anesthesia is a major drug that takes part in almost all kinds of major surgey. Anesthesia is administered to a patient by taking a few body parameters into account. This is usually done by an anesthetist where one manually analyzes these parameters and calculates the dosage. In this way the probability of error is usually high. Our solution is to remove the human error in this impeccable system, by designing a system which takes the required parameters and automatically controls the injection system. This system will assist the anesthetist in his decision making process and can also act as ...

We have invented a diagnostic sensor capable of identifying the unique gait signatures of multiple pathologies, including Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, traumatic brain injuries, Alzheimer’s syndrome and related conditions. Moreover, by employing proprietary sensor data processing algorithms, the measured gait data can be evaluated in real time to provide warnings of impending falls.

Although gait assessment instruments have been demonstrated in the past, our invention will in addition analyze such gait measurements in real time so as to identify the specific clinical conditions exhibited by the test subjects. It can therefore be used as a screening tool for early ...

Bio-Grid is the modular antimicrobial ceiling developed by request of the University of Michigan hospitals to reduce HAI's (hospital acquired infections). The modular ceiling replaces non active gypsum/drywall, fibrous panels and stainless ceilings that harbor and grow bacteria and fungus and cannot be sufficiently cleaned by hand. When bacteria such as Escherichia coli ATCC 8739, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 538 or Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 15442 land on the surface, the Bio-Grid coating inhibits the ability to reproduce and achieves a 99.99% reduction of the bacteria after 24 hours!

The ceiling is also heavy duty coated aluminum panels to industry standard ...

BlinkEye is an alternative communication device by controlling a PC with just a blink of an eye and concerns people with reduced communication capacity. It can be applied to everyone that can make an intentional eye blinking even to people with complete paralysis of all controlled muscles, except those controlling eye movements like people with locked-in syndrome. It detects the intended eye blinking and sends a keyboard or mouse command to the computer. BlinkEye can improve the quality of life of such people as the ability of communication is feasible again.

For many years, cardiovascular diseases have been the number one cause of death in Germany. To re-open the morbid narrowed coronary vessels for a sufficient blood circulation, an interventional treatment is possible. In this case the vessel gets expanded and is additionally supported by an endoluminal vascular implant, a so called stent. Coronary stents are commercially available in many different types and are already successfully used, but in the case of a stenosis in a bifurcated coronary region, the otherwise uncomplicated and safe treatment still causes some problems.

The commercially available stents for coronary bifurcations are usually laser cut ...